Abstract
Nanoscaled electronic devices have attracted much attention due to their optical and electronic properties, especially related to MOS (Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor) devices used for memory storage applications. Improved electrical properties, longer retention, lower gate voltage and lower power consumption are assumed to be possible when replacing bulk floating gate in flash memory devices with nanocrystals. Multilayer samples with Si, Ge, Er-oxide, and Pd nanocrystals and clusters were studied in detail. The nucleation, distribution, defects, composition, and atomic and electronic structure are important factors to understand in order to improve performance of memory storage devices. These parameters were studied by high resolution transmission electron microscopy, energy filtered transmission electron microscopy, electron energy loss spectroscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, energy dispersive spectroscopy, and secondary ion-mass spectrometry.
List of papers
1 A. Thogersen, J. Mayandi, T. Finstad, J. S. Christensen, M. Mitome, Y. Bando and A. Olsen. Characterization of amorphous and crystalline silicon nanoclusters in an ultrathin silica layer. Journal of Applied Physics 74, 245109 (2008). The paper is not available in DUO. The published version is available at: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3014195 |
2 A. Thogersen, S. Diplas, J. Mayandi, T. Finstad, J. F. Watts M. Mitome, Y. Bando and A. Olsen. An experimental study of charge distribution in crystalline and amorphous Si nanoclusters in thin silica films. Journal of Applied Physics 70, 195119 (2008). The paper is not available in DUO. The published version is available at: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2832630 |
3 A. Thogersen, J. Mayandi, T. Finstad, S. Diplas, M. Mitome, Y. Bando and A. Olsen. The formation of Er-oxide nanoclusters in SiO2 thin films with excess Si. Journal of Applied Physics 106, 14305 (2009). The paper is not available in DUO. The published version is available at: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3148266 |
4 A. Thogersen, J. Mayandi, L. Vines, M. F. Sunding, T. Finstad, S. Diplas, M. Mitome, Y. Bando and A. Olsen. Composition and electron beam assisted diffusion study of Pd- and Gecontaining nanoclusters in a SiO2 matrix. Will be submitted to Journal of Applied Physics shortly The paper is not available in DUO. |